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Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006) was an English singer, songwriter, musician, composer, and painter. Best known as a founder member of the band Pink Floyd, Barrett was the lead singer, guitarist and principal songwriter in its early years and is credited with naming the band. Barrett was excluded from Pink Floyd in April 1968 after David Gilmour took over as their new guitarist, and was briefly hospitalised amid speculation of mental illness.

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I think young people should have a lot of fun. But I never seem to have any.

Fun, People, Should Have, Think, Thinking, Young

I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.

Nothing, Operation, Operations, Serious

I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.

Like, Lines, Take, Tend, Writing

Well, I'm a painter, I was trained as a painter…I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've done…But it didn't transcend the feeling of playing at UFO and those sort of places with the lights and that, the fact that the group was getting bigger and bigger.

Feeling, Feelings, Groups, Light, Playing, Trained

There's so much around, you don't know what to listen to. All I've got at home is Bo Diddley, some Stones and Beatles stuff, and old jazz records.

Home, Jazz, Know, Records, Stones

I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway.

Anyway, Easy, Head, Irregular, Talk, Thinking

It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn't reach that point.

Fast, Group, Groups, Months, Pace, Playing

I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends.

Food, Like, My Friends, Physicals, Rich, Vaccines

But I can't find anybody. That's the problem. I don't know where they are. I mean, I've got an idea that there must be someone to play with. If I was going to play properly, I should need some really good people.

Idea, Ideas, Know, Mean, Play, Problem

I’m not anything that you think I am

Think, Thinking

I think of me being a painter eventually.

Eventually, Painter, Think, Think Of Me, Thinking

I'm full of dust and guitars.

Dust, Full, Guitar, Guitars

It's rather difficult to think of anybody being really interested in me. But you know, man, I am totally together.

Being Real, Man, Men, Thinking, Together, Totally

You can play guitar in your canteen, you know, your hair might be longer, but there's a lot more to playing than travelling around universities and things.

Guitar, Hair, Play, Playing, Things, Travelling

Well, I've got a color telly, and a fridge. I've got some pork chops in the fridge, but the chops keep going off, so I have to keep buying more.

Buying, Color, Keep, Pork, Telly

I like songs that are simple.

Like, Simple, Song, Songs

I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.

Mostly, Path, Time, Treading, Waste, Wasting My Time

A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.

Films, Make, People, Photography, Want

I suppose I could've done a job. I haven't been doing any work. I'm not really used to doing quick jobs and then stopping, but I'm sure it would be possible.

Done, Job, Jobs, Possible, Stopping, Would Be

I've got a bike. You can ride it if you like. It's got a basket, a bell that rings and things to make it look good. I'd give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it.

Bell, Bells, Giving, Look, Looks, Rings

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